Ok. I like some funky post titles. Here, by virtual reality, I don't want to say anything about Life2 or other virtual reality game. I want to put my points on human behavior (again big words :)
So, after spending 16 hours, I've come across some really interesting things that I'd like to share.
Rather, I wanna put those in some place like blog so that I can look at it after few years n check whether those were true for me.
See, how I live my life, and how my friends/family think I live my life, is ideally should be same. But I think, its impossible. In fact, I purposefully, consciously, make sure they don't know about my 'internal affairs'. [And I think this applies to everybody].
Let me explain, you share your thoughts, experiences, emotions with people you care. Do you share everything? No. you share only those things that you think are either neutral or really nice. You also share some bad thoughts 'As long as it's not related to them'. I'll not go n tell my friend that I hate this this you do.. If I can, I'll most probably just ignore it.. You still hate it.. but you ignore it.. Same thing is other way round. You know or you think this person will hate me if I tell this thing. You choose not to share it.
So the thing is, say you have a big friends group. You always meet in a group. In this case, you cannot tell a single thing you hate about any of them. and you cannot share anything you did, that you think they will hate. So the things you share is less than 50%
These people know me less 50% .. They know the image of myself that I'm creating for them. n vice versa.. I'm sure if I don't know these guys as well as I think. We live in virtual reality.
Crazy eh?
I'll surely enjoy my life now with this realization (sarcasm).. Fake Me gotta go.. so cutting it here.
Enjoy your life now, if you can. or.. curse 'virtual' me if you want.
If you do not think its true, I'm really jealous of you.
~ By Prajwalit, that you think you know. :)
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If the virtual reality is happier and better, why live in the 'real' reality? :-)
what you mean is accept that matrix doesn't exists.. :)
I think we display different sides of our character to different sets of people. It doesn't mean that we are being untrue or being 'not the real me'. The people who know us better than others are those who are with us in different settings. I will introduce my best friends to all my friend-groups, and because they are with me in all these various groups they will 'know me better'
aah vedang, you have no idea what we think about this attitude of yours.. :P
@Praju : do you know what we call this attitude of yours ? :P :P ... and so beings the chain.. hehehe
@praj i think i know ;) i try not to do it too often!
@potter.. nice one :)
@vedang wow.. you took the red pill, eh?
you know everything what we think abt you :)
Praj,
I can throw a tantrum and act crazy, stubborn, and adamant in front of people I consider close, because I know the strength of the relationship won't be affected, and by being friends so long, I have earned the right to let loose that maniac side and let them deal with it. And bring me back, if you will.
I can't do that with someone I have recently met, well, because I might be put in an asylum.
It's really not about hiding your self, or being untrue to yourself. It's more about trusting others to still like you as much. Isnpite of it. Or maybe even because of it.
The point really is, share how much you are comfortable with. But don't equate it by saying your hiding yourself.
And at the end of the day, it's always about how much you know yourself rather than how much others know you.
P.S. Stop analysing yourself so much. Let loose, and enjoy. Maybe then, you won't need to keep distinguishing between virtuality and reality. It's just a funality. ( Oh, how witty am I. And this is the real me ;) )
@Mia,
Its not about what throwing a tantrum or acting crazy.. That's part of funality :)
but I wanted to talk about how much we are hiding from others.. and to hide it, showing the other side instead.
Its like magic trick you know... You distract them so that they will not understand the real trick..
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